Minor bug fixes and improvements to 0.4.1-1
James Laska
jlaska at redhat.com
Tue Sep 21 20:59:26 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:44 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> ----- "James Laska" <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > = conflicts test failures =
> >
> > 1) Failing to find packages or mirrors
> >
> > This appears to be a result of running the test in a different
> > environment.
> > When run previously, download.fedoraproject.org would result to an
> > internal Red
> > Hat mirror which was (for the most part) always updated and accurate.
> > With our
> > tests now running in Fedora infrastructure, we are at the mercy of
> > MirrorManager to provide an appropriate mirror. It seems that we
> > rarely get an
> > updated mirror. I have 2 proposed solutions to this problem.
> >
>
> I have also noticed problems with MirrorManager, I get an outdated
> mirror quite frequently when testing. The question is - how is that
> possible? Isn't that a bug? Isn't a sole purpose of the MirrorManager
> to ensure I actually always get an up-to-date mirror? If that's the
> case, we should simply request a fix for MirrorManager. Does anyone
> know how it *should* work?
>
> Anyway, for performance reasons, it would be nice to download from
> our fast internal mirror, sure.
>
> (But I'm still puzzled about the MirrorManager giving outdated mirrors.)
Great questions Kamil. We've temporarily resolved the problem by
ensuring we get a known-good mirror. But your questions remain. I'd
need to check-in with folks from the infrastructure team for
thoughts/guidance.
Thanks,
James
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